Halbert says ‘whistleblower’ status should make her immune to recall
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert said Thursday, Sept. 22, that efforts to lower the number of signatures to force a recall election shouldn’t apply to her because she has “whistle blower” status in her dispute over funding with the county administration. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert reacts to talk of legislation lowering the number of signatures needed to force a recall election. She also continues to blame County Mayor Lee Harris’ administration for a backlog of license plates and tags that she says has been cleared up.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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